Medical Sponsorship
Acres of Hope's medical care includes the two active upcountry clinics we started and supplied as well as the AIDS Awareness Program we are affiliated with (through the National AIDS Control Program). In 2005, AOHL started a clinic in Kpablee (say "Bopley"), again with the goal of turning it over to local leadership We are pleased that this project has thrived and grown. The community is now building a full-scale hospital.We are so pleased to have planted this seed and enjoy watching it grow.
Furthermore, we are working hard to address the problem of caustic soda ingestion. Innumerable children mistake odorless, colorless lye solution for water. When they drink it, it chemically burns their mouths and throats, leaving terrible scarring. The scar tissue mounts and closes off their throats. Many of these children die of dehydration and strarvation AOHL works not only for the adoption of these children whose only hope may be adoption to a modern country, but also to activate medical professionals in Liberia to develop better treatment methods. In addition, we are working on a prevention program to make the lye solution less accessible to the children, as well as to label it.
Details of medical sponsorship are coming soon.